It also perforated the houses gas lines. Oleg managed to switch the gas off before dawn, or an explosion.
On Monday, Mr. Kharkovsky, 75, a retired electrician from an old Soviet-era high-voltage insulator factory, tended his garden to the sounds of gunfire. He stepped past shattered beehives, beside rows of spring garlic.
Like many in Slovyansk, he felt stuck in a fight he did not want. We cant leave, we have nowhere to go, he said. Were old pensioners and this is our home.
Ms. Romanika agreed. My mind is filled with fog, she said. Fog and fear, but fear most of all. I just want peaceful skies, a small pension that actually comes, and a piece of bread. Thats all.
These are the type of stories that bear witness to the mendacity of the puppet regime in Kiev.
The notion that the United States is contemplating military support for a government engaged in this type of behavior is despicable.
"Freedom is the sure possession of those alone
who have the courage to defend it."~Pericles